Hay-cocker



G H. BENNET.

HAY COCKER. APPLICATION FILED MAR 22 1919 1,347,141.

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G H. BENNET.

.HAY COCKER.

APPLICMQION FILED MARZZ, m9.

G HENRY BENNET, F SPRINGDALE, MONTANA, ASSIGNO R OF ONE-HALF T0 WILLIAM HRUZA, 0F LIVINGSTON, MONTANA.

HAY-COGKER.

Specification or Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G HENRY BENNET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springdale, in the county of Park and State of Montana, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in HayCockers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

h1s invention relates to a hay cooker suitable receptacle or receptacles at the rear of the machine, and which receptacle or receptacles, when properly filled, will be dumped to deposit the hay on the ground in heaps or shocks.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved hay cooker, and Fig. 2 is a sectional slde view thereof, Fig. 3 is a detail the walking rakes.

Referring to the drawings, 12 denotes an inclined platform which is suitably supported V opposite ends of a shaft 18 provided with cranks l9 carrying alternately acting walking rakes 20, said walking rakes being connected at their lower parts to cranks 21 011 an idly oper ating crank shaft 22 supported in suitable bearings 23 at the lower part of the ma chine.

Pivotally hung in loops or straps 24 at tached to the lower ends of strips 25 mounted on the inclined platform 12 is a rake 26 having forwardly projecting teeth which take the hay from the ground so that it will pass up to the inclined platform 12 and will be carried upward and over said platform by'the walking rakes 20. Connected with the pivotally hung rake 26 is an upright bar 27 having fixed thereto a horizontally extending bar 28 provided at its forward end with a part 29 by which it may be adjustably connected with a hanger 30 depending from the draft tongue or pole 31, so that the working position of the teeth of the rake 26 may be varied, as may be desired, to adjust said teeth to a suitable Patented July 20, 1920. Serial No. 284,270.

by which the teeth of the rake may be lifted when the over roads, or the like,

may be disconnected from tie hanger 30. The seat 32 is omitted from Fig. l for clearness of illus- The hay receptacle or basket is formed in two sections and comprises suitable wires or rods. bottom part 35 receptacle or basket comprises horizontally extending rods connected with or forming extensions of inclined rods 36 Xed part of the machine frame. he top portion of the hay receptacle or asket comprises side bars 37 and a back bar 37 from which depend rods 38 forming the sides and back of the receptacle. are pivoted on strips 25 and are provided with short crank or lever arms 39 connected by rods or links with the lower portion of the receptacle or basket.

I connected to foot levers 43 to be operated lift the top portion of the hay receptacle or basket and to lower the bottom part thereof, as denoted by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

he improved hay cocker is preferably made of sufficient width, as shown in Fig. l, to take up two swaths of hay at the same time, and each section will preferably be provided with a separate basket or hay receptacle at the rear, and these baskets or reby the driver, to-

' frame between efficient hay cocker which ceptacles may be dumped alternately if desired. Of course it will be understood that only a single dumping hay receptacle or basket maybe employed if ,desired The platform 12 and the inclined strips 25, aifording two troughs in which the hay is carried upward by the walking rakes 20, constitute the frame of the machine which, with the axle or \cross bar 1'3 and the wheels 1.4:, constitute a wheeled frame, the draft tongue or pole 81 being attached to said the central strips 25 which form the inner sides of the two troughs ust referred to.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the invention provides a simple and will effectively perform the work for which it is intended.

form, of a hay hay Having thus described my invention, I

claim and desireto-secure by Letters Patent:

In a hay cooker, the combination with a wheeled frame comprising an inclined platgathering rake pivotally mounted at the lower end of said platform, means for adjusting said rake to different working positions, walking rakes-for carrying the hay upward and over said platform and dumping receptacles receiving the at the rear of the machine,said platform being provided with strips to form two troughs between which troughs the draft tongue or pole of the machine is mounted.

In testlmony whereof I affix my ture.

signae HENRY BENNETL i 

